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Social studies Common Core W.2.7 internet activities
Seven Continents Mini Research Project
Research fun! This mini research project for the 7 continents is a great way to introduce research to your students. The QR code research mats are a highly engaging way to have your students work independently or in small groups to learn about the continents. The reports are also a great way to have your students share their learning and compare the similarities and differences between the continents. In this file you will find:*Teacher directions*QR code mats for each continent*Mini report wit
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1st - 2nd
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FAMOUS INVENTORS Biography Research Template Writing Project plus Posters
Celebrate 12 Famous Inventors using biography templates to practice writing skills! Use the graphic organizers to teach your class how to organize information. Students create Important Questions (essential questions) to provide focus to their research. Everything you need to begin a guided research project. This resource is easily differentiated to multiple student learning levels. Color & Blackline Posters included for each inventor. Easy to use as a digital EASEL Activity! This pack of 12
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2nd - 4th
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Library Research | The Ultimate BUNDLE
Scaffold student learning throughout grades K-5 with these research projects for elementary library classes! Your students will develop their research, writing, and technology skills beginning in Kindergarten and progressing through 5th grade. Help your students progress in their mastery of research skills in elementary school! Each grade builds upon skills learned in previous years.Included in this ultimate bundle of resources:ANIMAL RESEARCH K-5 BUNDLE:Guide your students in an engaging anima
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K - 5th
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Biography Templates for Research and Writing
Do you need biography templates that students can use to research historical people in American History? Then use these use graphic organizers and a biography template to research and write biographies of important or famous people in American history. Using these 38 biographies templates, students can conduct independent short-term research projects. Finding facts about historical figures is made easy using the included QR codes. Extensive teacher notes provide ideas for mini-lessons and step
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2nd - 5th
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Digital Interactive Bundle Notebook for Google Classroom
Are you looking for weekly science and seasonal digital activities to use with your students throughout the school year? Your students will love the variety of themes with these digital interactive notebook using Google Slides! These are a fun, interactive, digital activity that can be incorporated into your Kindergarten or 1st Grade science lessons using Google Classrooms. Simply upload this as an assignment and make a copy for each student. When they have finished the activity, have the stu
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K - 2nd
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Biography Research 2nd 3rd Grade Writing Project FAMOUS INVENTORS Google Slides
Get to know some of the most influential inventors with these Google Slides Biography Templates! These digital graphic organizers help students collect & organize information about 12 famous inventors, to make biography writing and research reports easy. Follow the Guided Research Process & use the templates to teach your class how to navigate and organize information. Graphic organizers are included to record information for each individual, along with Common Core Standards, a K-W-L Tem
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2nd - 4th
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Presidents Research Project for Second Grade & Third Grade Library Skills
This United States President research project is ideal for use in library skills classes in second and third grades or in the 2nd or 3rd grade classroom. Guide your elementary students as they develop research and technology skills! Students will create bookmarks or lift the flap projects using PowerPoint or Google Slides. This research project is part of a scaffolded research unit and the basis for strengthening research skills in elementary school. *Includes tutorial videos for Distance
Grades:
2nd - 3rd
Also included in: Presidents Research Project Bundle for K - 5 Library Research Skills
Cinco de Mayo Activities for 1st, 2nd, 3rd Grade
Wondering what you can do to commemorate this Mexican holiday, Cinco de Mayo? Well, look no further I have Cinco de Mayo activities to make your task easier and engaging! Here are activities for multiple subjects—social studies, writing, math, and vocabulary building. There is little preparation to save valuable teacher-time. Links to resources make content learning easy for you with a couple accessible for students. Content differentiation is easy with several of the pages and answer keys make
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1st - 3rd
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Holiday Virtual Field Trips! *GROWING BUNDLE* with FREE HALLOWEEN Escape Room!
Introducing the extraordinary Holiday Virtual Field Trips bundle! This comprehensive and ever-growing collection of virtual field trips celebrates a diverse range of holidays observed across the United States, offering an immersive and engaging learning experience like no other.Special Features:Virtual Tours: Embark on a journey of exploration and discovery as students delve into the vibrant world of virtual tours. These captivating experiences transport students to iconic destinations that emb
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K - 12th
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President's Day for Primary Grades
Celebrate President’s Day and learn about George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and our current President. Read informative texts, organize ideas with graphic organizers--comparing and contrasting facts, practice vocabulary with worksheets, writing tasks, and more. Our President, Joe Biden, has graphic organizers for recording facts about him as well. Make this an informative and easy-on-you day with the parts of this resource. Updated 12-20.Included in this unit:⭐ Books to assemble— “Who Can be P
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K - 3rd
Also included in: American Symbols | President's Day | Leader Roles | Voting BUNDLE
50 States Research Project Graphic Organizers
This product contains a graphic organizer for each of the fifty states. Each one of my students did research on one of the fifty states recording his/her information on these graphic organizers. To find the information, they use both websites and books from the library. Then the students used this information to create a Google Presentation, which they share with their classmates.
To create Google Presentation, the students made one slide for each box on the graphic organizer. Great project to
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2nd - 6th
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DIGITAL Passport to Social Studies Grade 2 Unit 1 Lesson 10 (Distance Learning)
Passport to Social Studies Lesson 10 Making a Five Borough Map: Where is New York City on a map?This is a digital resource for use on Google Classroom and Google Slides.It contains Lesson 10 from Passport to Social Studies with the following elements:Slides for LIVE instruction (including a Discussion, Model/Teach, Active Engagement, Interactive drag options or type in the box during the lesson.)Slides for an Independent Assignment on Google Classroom (which may include a drag/drop activity or a
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2nd
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Digital State Report & STEM Project Bundle
Thanks so much for your business! Use this handy ***editable*** Digital State Report & STEM Project Bundle to showcase your students’ learning in a uniquely fresh way! Truly a digital state report like no other, this twist on the traditional state report features the opportunity for students to DRAW and BUILD a MODEL STATE-THEMED AMUSEMENT PARK (featuring state symbols in its design, ride names, and state crops/goods in the snack stand, gift shop, etc.) made from recyclable materials. Studen
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2nd - 5th
Black History Month Project Grid!
Get your students EXCITED about Black History Month, by allowing them to pick their project to explore!
This project allows for students to explore Black poets, activists, leaders in their community, artists, inventors, and important people from the Harlem Renaissance.
INCLUDED:
-Generic Information Sheet to send home (input your own due dates)
Check out the full version for complete rubrics!
Each project is graded out of 100 points.
Grades:
1st - 8th
DIGITAL Passport to Social Studies Grade 2 Unit 1 Lesson 2 (Distance Learning)
Passport to Social Studies Lesson 2: How can cardinal directions and intermediate directions be used to locate places on a map?This is a digital resource for use on Google Classroom and Google Slides.It contains Lesson 2 from Passport to Social Studies with the following elements:Slides for LIVE instruction (including a Discussion, Model/Teach, Active Engagement, Interactive drag options during the lesson.)Slides for an Independent Assignment on Google Classroom. Instructions on how to use the
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2nd
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DIGITAL Passport to Social Studies Grade 2 Unit 1 Lesson 6 (Distance Learning)
Passport to Social Studies Lesson 6 Locating Our Community on a Map: Where is New York City on a map? What are the boroughs that make up New York City?This is a digital resource for use on Google Classroom and Google Slides.It contains Lesson 6 from Passport to Social Studies with the following elements:Slides for LIVE instruction (including a Discussion, Model/Teach, Active Engagement, Interactive drag options during the lesson.)Slides for an Independent Assignment on Google Classroom.Instructi
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2nd
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DIGITAL Passport to Social Studies Grade 2 Unit 1 Lesson 12/13 (Remote Learning)
This is a combined lesson of Lesson 12 and 13 from Passport to Social Studies (Combined due to pacing purposes).Passport to Social Studies Lesson 12&13 New York State Geographic Features: What are some of the geographic features of New York State?This is a digital resource for use on Google Classroom and Google Slides.It contains Lesson 12&13 from Passport to Social Studies with the following elements:Slides for LIVE instruction (including a Discussion, Model/Teach, Active Engagement, In
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2nd
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DIGITAL Passport to Social Studies Grade 2 Unit 1 Lesson 14 (Distance Learning)
Passport to Social Studies Lesson 14 Urban, Suburban, and Rural Communities: How do we use a map to locate urban, rural, and suburban communities in New York State?This is a digital resource for use on Google Classroom and Google Slides.It contains Lesson 14 from Passport to Social Studies with the following elements:Slides for LIVE instruction (including a Discussion, Model/Teach, Active Engagement, Interactive drag options or type in the box during the lesson.)Slides for an Independent Assignm
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2nd
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DIGITAL Passport to Social Studies Grade 2 Unit 1 Lesson 15 (Distance Learning)
Passport to Social Studies Lesson 15 Our Changing Community: How do people adapt and change the environment in their community?This is a digital resource for use on Google Classroom and Google Slides.It contains Lesson 15 from Passport to Social Studies with the following elements:Slides for LIVE instruction (including a Discussion, Model/Teach, Active Engagement, Interactive drag options or type in the box during the lesson.)Slides for an Independent Assignment on Google Classroom (which may in
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2nd
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World Record's Project
Students will incorporate reading, analyzing and creating charts and graphs, researching on the internet, writing and social studies. After developing Inquiry questions about world records, students will research one of their questions. After comparing different records and websites by taking notes, students will write their own article with a graphic source from the information they researched. This project is great for higher level students who need a deeper connection to content that is re
State Research Note sheet with Outline for Writing
I don't know about your students, but my 2nd graders LOVE research! Students chose a state of their choice (besides our state of Ohio) to research. We used books on MyOn to fill out the research sheet. The research sheet follows the format of the MyOn books, but I'm sure your students would be able to find their own research and fill it in.
On the second page of the resource is a writing outline that will help your students put their awesome facts into a well-written paragraph! (Examples for
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Grades:
2nd - 3rd
DIGITAL Passport to Social Studies Grade 2 Unit 1 Lesson 3 (Distance Learning)
Passport to Social Studies Lesson 3: Making a Classroom Map: How can cardinal directions and intermediate directions be used to locate places on the map?This is a digital resource for use on Google Classroom and Google Slides.It contains Lesson 3 from Passport to Social Studies with the following elements:Slides for LIVE instruction (including a Discussion, Model/Teach, Active Engagement, Interactive drag options during the lesson.)Slides for an Independent Assignment on Google Classroom. Instr
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2nd
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FREE Transportation Research Project
This simple project about modes of transportation will have your students practicing their research skills and learning new, fun facts. In my classroom, the students had the option of railroad or steamboat as that is what our textbook covered.
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1st - 4th
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